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Our Smart Gardens are carefully designed to produce food with minimum effort and space, while reducing our footprint and saving money too.

We pick our greens and herbs when we need them, packaging-free and fresh from our doorstep (or balcony!). We grow treasured food plants that are not available in shops, evoking memories of home and allowing traditions to continue so we can share authentic dishes with family, friends and neighbours. By saving our own locally-adapted seeds, we preserve agricultural biodiversity for future generations.

Latest Events

Join free events in your neighbourhood and online. Get your questions answered by local experts with reliable, practical advice. Enjoy tours of inspirational places and meet your local gardening community. Bring any surplus seeds, plants and produce to swap and share too!

Thrifty gardening (MoVCC)

Thrifty gardening (MoVCC)

483 Keilor Rd, Niddrie VIC 3042, Australia
Free event
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Preparing for a winter veggie crop

Preparing for a winter veggie crop

154 High St, Ashburton VIC 3147, Australia
Free event
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‘The Plummery’: a small scale intensive urban permaculture

‘The Plummery’: a small scale intensive urban permaculture

92 Bignell Rd, Bentleigh East VIC 3165, Australia
Free event
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Resources

Missed an event? Check out previous event notes and recordings, plus videos from our local gardening experts.

A winter harvest basket with carrots, daikon, peas, kale, sprouting broccoli, silverbeet and cherry guavas.
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Your cool season vegie patch

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Preparing a veggie bed for planting

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How to harvest leafy greens

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Our Focus

My Smart Garden is a free program that will help you grow food, shelter your home from the sun and wind, create homes for native plants and animals, use water wisely and reduce waste. Learn about the five themes:

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Food

Grow your own food with minimum effort and space

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Shelter

Make your home more comfortable all year round

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Water

Use our most precious resource wisely

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Habitat

Create homes for local plants and wildlife

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Waste

Transform waste materials into garden resources

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